It’s time to feature another webcomic. Today’s is a comic that is just getting started! It’s called:

Crystal Ball tells the story of Thalissa, who just wants to get back to her faraway home. She’s been trying to earn money and lucks out when she finds a necklace in the sand. This necklace isn’t just any ordinary piece of jewelry though, it’s the heart of a magician!

This comic is in full-color and has a manga-style feel to it with both the paneling and the art style. Check it out and let us know what you think!

We will have one more feature this week! Christmas Day I will be featuring two comics that I gave and received art from during the Webcomic Secret Santa.

I’m going to start featuring a new webcomic every Monday. First up is an indie manga called…

Remote Angel revolves around a girl named Alice who is having some haunting dreams. The next thing she knows, those dreams come true and she is fighting alongside heaven with Hell!

There are a lot of comics, mine included, that are manga inspired but don’t keep true to the manga feel. Remote Angel keeps the paneling, art style, and pacing of the magical girl manga that I grew up with. A new page is posted every week and the comic itself is black and white with screentones.

Remote Angel is just beginning chapter 6, so the story is still kicking off. It’s a good time to jump on that train.

Also! Remote Angel just finished a successful Kickstarter for the first edition of the book, so if you like what you read then you should support an indie artist and snag a copy.

Would you like for me to feature your comic and include you as an affiliate on our site? Shoot me an email at kristy@teccomic.com.

I know every webcomic in the world does this, but what can I say? I’m super conformist! I’ve made a couple of donation wallpapers. If you feel so inclined to help us out, that would be amazing. $1 or more gets you one of these lovely images in full, high-res glory. I’ll even custom tailor it to your monitor’s resolution, because I am both poor and love my readers.

As I do sometimes, we will be taking a break between Chapter 3 (which ends with today’s update) and the beginning of chapter 4. We will resume updates next week on Thursday, September 4th. After this break, there will not be another break for quite some time.

Why a break, you ask? Well, first of all I’m tired! We’ve done two conventions this month and I’ve managed to mostly maintain my schedule. Secondly, I have some related projects to the site that I need to get done. There will be a new layout implemented soon. Hopefully this weekend, but I am not making any promises. Also, things like a proper archives page, cast page, etc will be going up.

Finally, as you may have noticed I got an art software upgrade that allows me to draw with thinner lines. I’m still having some problems with working the kinks out of my process though. I am working on reinking (and adding a few pages to) the first few chapters, in order to get them ready for print. I will be working on these throughout this week to get my art process down pat.

Some exciting news that comes from the new art process will be that there will be more toning! I’m tired of the flat art and I know you are too, so I am looking to come up with a process to allow me to do more with grayscale to give the world depth. This is going to be a big improvement on the overall quality of the art, so please bear with me this week while I get it all worked out.

I love you guys! I will see you next week, hopefully on a shiny new site. If not a shiny new site, well, uh, with at least a new, hilarious chapter starting.

TEC IS BACK TO ITS NORMAL SCHEDULE. Sorry for the delay on Monday’s update. My computer crashed while I was finishing the inks and I had to rage quit.

Anyway…

It was so wonderful to meet all of you at Tokyo in Tulsa! I hope you enjoyed the bracelets that we handed out. If you’re here because of one of those or a mini-comic, shoot me a comment! I’d love to hear from you. We’ll be at a lot of regional conventions next year and we always love feedback from our readers and convention attendees. Plus, there could be some cool, exclusive swag in it for you!

Now then, Tokyo in Tulsa was an interesting weekend. I had a lot of life experiences. Robert (our lovely co-writer) and I went with a few friends and got lost, I got briefly trapped in an elevator, we got a flat tire, and stuff was stolen from our booth on Saturday night. It was a rough, rough weekend.

But, I want to say that YOU GUYS, the convention goers, definitely brightened my spirits. I loved meeting all of you guys and talking with you. It was great.

I’d like to talk a minute about the kindness of strangers and how little acts can change someone’s day in a BIG way. As I said above, I had a pretty rough weekend. Now, there was a gentleman that came by our booth with this RAD sketchbook. It had drawings from so many different artists, going back around 10 years. He asked for me to draw in it and I did, gladly. Later, he dropped some fanart off at my table.

This is the fanart! Thank you so much, dude! Unfortunately, I didn’t catch his name and wasn’t able to thank him or get his contact info. I totally dropped the ball on this. So I wanted to publicly thank him not only for the art, but for brightening a rather cruddy day for me. You have no idea how much this cheered me up!

So, if you end up coming to the site, shoot me a message at kristy@teccomic.com. I’d like to send you a signed copy of our book when it comes out in January. Just a random act of kindness back. 🙂 I’d also like to credit you when I stick this in the fanart section, so I hope you see this!

Our next convention will be G.A.M.E. (http://springfieldgame.com), the weekend of October 11th in Springfield, MO. Stop by and say hi!